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Jason Friedman is a professional photographer with over 20 years experience concentrating on fashion and beauty photography. He specializes in lighting for both studio and location, using both strobes and continuous lighting sources. Over the past couple of years, due to the hybridization of the DSLR in respect to film making, he has become passionate about the moving image and has embraced the new technology with open arms. Previously employed at B&H Photo Video Pro-Audio, Jason worked in several positions, including manager of the lighting department, professional photo sales, and marketing. He loves to teach and has taught seminars in subjects ranging from photography, lighting, and DSLR video, and he has taught Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom aboard the National Geographic Explorer for Lindblad Expeditions. Currently Jason is the Product Marketing Manager of Kupo Grip USA. He is a native of New York City and currently resides there.

Join Jason Friedman as he shows you how to rig three distinct multi-light shots using off-camera flash while taking advantage of Kupo’s innovative, precision crafted grip equipment and Pocket Wizard’s wireless triggering systems. In this webinar you will learn how to rig, two and three flash setups, for an an executive portrait in an office environment utilizing some specialized grip gear and two studio shots, a beauty shot and lifestyle shot using the foundation of all grip equipment, the versatile C-Stand as well as a whole variety of grip gear. After this webinar, photographers will have more tools and tricks to rig their amazing off-camera flashes for a whole variety of shooting styles both for studio and location.

1 – Room Fill Light : For the fill light, I placed an Off-Camera Flash Alli Clamp to the arm rest on a chair and pointed it straight at the ceiling. Since this already includes a mini ball head and hot shoe adapter, the SB-900 flash mounted directly to it. This increased the overall room exposure.

1 – Kicker: For our kicker, or hair light, We rigged an off-camera flash to the drop ceiling using one of Kupo’s Drop Ceiling Adapters with Baby Stud, just behind our subject pointing towards the back of her head. The Nikon SB-900 flash was rigged to our Handy Stand by using our Tilting Umbrella Adapter and Hot Shoe Adapter.

Here are three photos from this shoot:

Executive Portrait - #1

Executive Portrait - #2

Executive Portrait - #3

FLASH SET-UP #2 – BEAUTY

In this beauty shot, I wanted to incorporate one of my favorite lighting techniques, using 3 strip banks to create a soft “ring light” effect by configuring the strip banks in a triangular pattern and shooting through the center of the triangle.

4 – LIGHT SET-UP

3 – Strip Bank Key Lights – Here I used a combination of both 20″ and 40″ C-Stand Kits, that consist of a C-Stand, Grip Arm & Grip Head to rig our strip banks as well as our seamless background. With the help of our 5″ Grip Pin, we had the ultimate flexibility to position our strip banks. We also used just the base from one of our C-Stands with Turtle Base with a Butt Plug, the affectionate industry term for a Stand Adapter with a Grip Arm and Grip Head to rig the bottom strip bank. We used the Creative Light Speedlight Speedring (see Nikon or Canon models under “Techincal Data”) to support our Nikon SB-900 Flashes in the Profoto 1×4 Strip Banks.

1 – Kicker Light – We used a 40″ C-Stand Kit with a Tilting Umbrella Adapter and a Hot Shoe Adapter to position our kicker, or edge light behind our subject up above our frame pointing toward the back of the subject’s head.

For Safety, for all of our 3 set-ups, we used a bunch of our 15lb Sandbags, our “Silent Grips” to hold everything in place.

Here are three photos from this shoot:

Beauty - #1

Beauty - #2

Beauty - #3

FLASH SET-UP #3 – LIFESTYLE FASHION

In this fashion shot, I wanted to demonstrate how you can use top-shelf light shapers such as a Profoto Giant Reflector using only off-camera flash!

1 – Kicker – We placed a SB-900 in a Profoto 1×4′ Strip Bank and positioned it at an angle behind the subject opposite the key light.

Profoto Giant 150 - Flash Rig

Here are three photos from this shoot:

Fashion - #1

Fashion - #2

Fashion - #3

All flashes were triggered using the amazing new Pocket Wizard Plus III Transceivers with Quad Zone Triggering Technology. Each flash had it’s own dedicated Pocket Wizard, that way from the camera position, I could turn them on or off so I could independently meter the results. These super simple units with advanced functionality will give you freedom and dependable triggering, every time!

All exposures were derived by the incredibly small and accurate Sekonic 308DC DigiCineMate Meter. Whether you shoot stills, cinema, pro video or dslr video, this little meter will get you perfect exposures every time!